Microsoft seems unperturbed and investors are instead concentrating on the approaching launch of the new Xbox 360 video game machine.

BBC: Global 30 hits highest level yet

This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, driving back to Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.

CNN: Gun violence task force meets with makers of video games

This action followed a letter to state officials from a couple who, on their way back toward Boston on Christmas Eve, noticed a "young man pointing a life-sized machine gun" at a video game inside the Massachusetts Turnpike's plaza in Charlton, about 100 miles from Newtown.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The Jace Hall Show has just debuted an arcade machine that contains and plays virtually every video game in the history of the video games.

FORBES: Meet The Arcade Machine Of The Future

And supercomputer programmers, like video-game designers, do not mind learning to program an entirely new machine provided it delivers the performance they are seeking.

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